Trump Signs Budget Deal To End Shutdown

President Donald Trump signed a major budget plan into law Friday, ending the year’s second government shutdown hours after it started. Both chambers of Congress passed a short-term funding bill in the wee hours of Friday and cleared the way for a massive boost to military and domestic spending hours after funding lapsed at midnight. The government partially shut down for the second time in less than a month.

The massive legislation cleared Congress after opposition delayed or threatened its passage in both chambers. The House narrowly passed the budget bill by 240 to 186 before dawn Friday, then sent it to Trump. Early Friday, the Senate approved the measure by a 71-28 vote following Sen. Rand Paul’s repeated attempts to block the vote. The Kentucky Republican opposed the spending increases contained in the agreement and wanted to vote on an amendment to maintain budget caps.

Just signed Bill. Our Military will now be stronger than ever before. We love and need our Military and gave them everything — and more. First time this has happened in a long time. Also means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!

The first one looked like there might have been chilly in the room. I could have helped warm him up a bit.

JT

Speed skate over here, pass the luge, and let’s get gussied up.

Joe in PA

He has the BEST use of capital letters, lots of people are saying that.

JT

Trump Signs Budget Deal To End Shutdown

The golf course is calling.

Butch

240 to 186 and that’s “narrowly?” Of course Congress abandoned the Dreamers once again, and if the Democrats actually believe the promises from Ryan and McConnell about taking up that legislation I have some oceanfront property in Nebraska I’d like to sell them.

GayOldLady

This is truly a Budget Bill, as it should be. If DACA would have gone into the bill the GOP would have also forced in all of the immigration limitations. The Dems might need to win back the House to have a real chance of getting clean bills on DACA

Joe in PA

Indeed. But what do we do between March 5th and next January?

GayOldLady

According to everything I’ve read a clean DACA bill would pass in both chambers, but in the House Paul Ryan will not bring it to the floor. Yesterday Pelosi was trying to invoke a rule that will allow for voting on stand alone bills, but the last I heard she was unsuccessful. The truth is she has little power unless she wanted to whip her members into a “no” vote on the budget bill. I think she made the right decision by allowing her members to vote their conscience because there were a lot of funding measures in the bill passed this morning that Dems support. We can’t beat them by becoming them. We have to win back the House and try to save the DACA kids in the courts if we can’t figure out how to get Ryan to allow a DACA vote.

clay

We still need to do that BEFORE March 5th.

GayOldLady

Part of the Dems agreement with McConnell in keeping the government open last month was a clean vote on DACA after the Budget Bill passed. Unless McConnell back out on that commitment which he made to both Dems & Repubs that support DACA, there will be an up or down vote on it in the Senate. When that happens Ryan will have no choice but vote on DACA, the fear is that Ryan will try to throw all the Trump provisions in that have across the board immigration
limits and funding the Wall.

Steven H

Lawsuits and the general goodwill of the public, which isn’t in a hurry to implement Trump’s anti-DACA policies. Keep ICE out of your neighborhood for just a few more months. And vote in November.

boatboy_srq

Lord Dampnut’s maladministration thinks AGCC is a Jynese plot and is behaving accordingly. Nebraska will likely have saltwater coastline in a century or so. Be careful what you snark about.

Rex

Someone please post a pic of the shirtless Tonga flag bearer at the Olympics opening ceremony to distract from looking at Trump’s ugly puss.

I don’t think that’s unreasonable. Those buildings often get pressed into service as shelters and community centers during disasters anyway. I’m not sure this is a hill atheists should die on.

Besides, now that their god has abandoned them in a storm, perhaps these church people will start thinking of FEMA as their personal lord and savior. I have faith in Lord FEMA.

djcoastermark

An interesting note, here in Florida, church based school buildings cannot be used as shelters during disasters such as hurricanes as they do not have to meet the same building codes as public schools, which have to be built to withstand cat 5’s and be able to be used as a shelter.

BearEyes

If they want taxpayer money, they need to pay taxes and play by public rules.

Ninja0980

Yup.

Skeptical_Inquirer

Joel Osteen had to be publicly shamed to do so.

RJ Bone

^THIS^

Acronym Jim

Has Trump finished reading the ten page rebuttal memo from the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee so he can sign off on that yet? I know it’s only been FIVE DAYS.

Rex

Trump read?
Oh, you silly, silly man.

Acronym Jim

My bad. I meant “read.”

Marides48

Well, at least it could be read to him as a bedtime story.

ceeenbee

Be patient. The whitey house artists haven’t finished turning the memo into a cartoon yet so fake president shitgibbon can delve into its substance.

shellback

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

bzrd

and Ike doesn’t know that the republikkkunts just gave the wealthy a huge tax cut so there’s no money for any of their nonsense
AND putin said his war is a cyber one
the U.S.A. is so stupid